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line-up

2018年07月13日 | 英単語
Miyuki MiyabeのShadow Familyを読んでいます。
Kazumi hung back behind her mother a bit and, ignoring Chikako, spoke to Office Fuchigami. "So where's the line-up going to be?"
"Follow me," came the crisp reply.
上に出てきた "line-up" は何を意味しているのでしょうか? 辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: At a line-up, a witness to a crime tries to identify the criminal from among a line of people.: He failed to identify Graham from photographs, but later picked him out of a police line-up.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a row of people, including a person who is believed to have committed a crime, who are shown to a witness (= person who saw the crime) to find out if the witness recognizes that person lineup
・Oxford English Dictionary: A group of people including a suspect for a crime assembled for the purpose of having an eyewitness identify the suspect from among them.
なるほど、犯罪小説だとこの様な意味になる単語ですね。
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